So on 21st May 2012 version 6 of nmap was released. Only issue is that they dont seem to release a deb package for it.

No big deal we’ll just have to build our own (tested on BT5r2 32+64bit)…

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echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install libssl-dev checkinstall
wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.00.tar.bz2
bzip2 -cd nmap-6.00.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
cd nmap-6.00
./configure
make
checkinstall --install=no
#Fill in the details as you desire and you're done

If you’re feeling particularly lazy I have built the packages and uploaded them here:
nmap_6.00-1_amd64.deb
nmap_6.00-1_i386.deb

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